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/clear-technical-communication

Rewrite technical prose so the reader infers nothing.

What it does

Reviews and rewrites technical communication against one rule: minimize what the reader has to reconstruct. Catches the specific failure modes — no purpose up front, undefined identifiers, invented metaphors, ambiguous references, logic hidden in punctuation, options presented without consequences, decisions requested without a recommendation — and fixes content before polishing sentences.

When to reach for it

Before sending a design summary, plan, status report, handoff, or any request for someone else's decision.

It's working if

  • It adds material as often as it cuts — the missing constraint, the consequence of the option you did not recommend.
  • Your draft comes back with a recommendation attached to every decision you asked someone else to make.
  • You can read the rewrite cold and tell what it wants from you.

Install this skill

Then type /clear-technical-communication in your agent.

npx skills@latest add smorinlabs/smorinlabs-harness -s clear-technical-communication

Or install it as the clear-technical-communication plugin.

/plugin install clear-technical-communication@smorinlabs-harness

Where it fits

  • /explain — composes new explanations; this one repairs existing prose.
  • /reader-steps — owns the one part it hands off — actions the reader must perform.